Curriculum for the HealthTech Council Meeting is based on extensive research with Health IT Executives. The Curriculum at this year’s Council Meeting will focus on the following Key Areas:
The Transformational Power of Health IT: Driving Engagement, Outcomes & Insights
HealthTech Council Meeting brings together an elite group of Health IT leaders from health care provider organizations, industry, academia, and government who believe in the importance of executive-level collaboration and information exchange to support the modernization of the healthcare industry though IT. Exclusive and intimate in nature, this Meeting gathers a caliber of participants at a c-suite peer level to collaborate in a retreat-like environment on the critical issues listed below.
- Discussion on how to use EHR/EMR as more than just records management tools, with particular focus on Big Data/Informatics, Information Sharing, driving value and decision making
- Discuss the importance of interoperability in your digital strategy and how to improve the ROI and long-term sustainability of EHR/EMR deployments
- Learn how EHR/EMR systems can be integrated into the patient care process to provide more accurate and effective care
- Case studies, best practices, and lessons learned on moving beyond ‘meaningful use’ to maximize ROI on EHR/EMR investments
- Learn about the most common security and privacy risks associated with various Health IT initiatives and how to ensure security is a foundational element of your infrastructures & architectures
- Specific focus on securing data in the cloud, third party vendor security assessment, mobile security, and secure information/data sharing
- Discussions, case studies and live demonstrations of cutting edge security technologies
- Learn what healthcare organizations are doing with digital data and the various ways data can be mined to create new knowledge
- Discuss the best technologies and architectures to support Big Data / Informatics initiatives with particular focus on Cloud, Data Warehousing and Interoperability
- Hear case studies on the future of informatics and how to develop sustainable, long-term strategies to maximize ROI
- Learn how Cloud-based services are being used to improve patient care and deliver anytime/anywhere access to medical records
- Discuss security and privacy concerns of moving data to the Cloud and best practices on ensuring the integrity of your patient data through access management and effective SLAs/Contracts
- Special focus on Cloud to support mHealth, Data Storage, Information Sharing, Data Mining, and Telemedicine
- Discuss strategies to ensure your cloud systems and data are interoperable with your entire network
- Share best practices and lessons learned on how determine the types of data belong on private/public/hybrid Clouds
- Learn how Health IT is transforming accessibility to patient data and our ability to share information, as well as governance and policy models needed to support these systems
- Discuss the role regional health exchanges and other information sharing programs play in information sharing
- Discuss the best Security Architectures, Access Management tools and technologies needed to ensure data Privacy and Security
- Specific focus on technologies and strategies including enterprise architecture, business analytics, information sharing, cloud computing, shared services, and mobility
- In depth discussion on how Identity/Access Management is a critical element to a strong security strategy
- Discuss the various ways data and networks can be secured through digital rights management and different access levels
- Learn how various strategies like Cloud and Information Sharing can affect the security of your data and how Identity/Access Management technologies can be used in these scenarios to minimize risk
- Discuss how the digitization of the healthcare industry is completely transforming the way the healthcare industry operates, and what executives must do to create a culture which will thrive during this period of disruption
- Learn how to engage all stakeholders (patients, care providers, executives, IT practitioners) through communication and collaboration to ensure the best results of all Health IT initiatives
- Share best practices, challenges, and lessons learned on developing cultures that support change
- Learn how peers are achieving compliance on various government mandates including HITECH, HIPAA, PCI and Sarbanes-Oxley
- Discuss how to build compliance into your IT strategy to ensure successful outcomes Hear best practices and lessons learned from other healthcare provider organizations who have deployed new technologies such as Cloud, EHR/EMR, and mHealth while ensuring compliance
- Learn how mobile technologies are being deployed by healthcare provider organizations to better share information, support the decision making process, and give patients access to their data
- Discuss security & privacy concerns associated with mHealth and technologies, best practices, and governance models which can mitigate the risk of data breaches
- Learn how technology, information sharing, and digital records are improving our ability to make more accurate and well informed decisions to better serve patients
- Discuss how proper data management practices, architectures, tagging are critical to data sharing and ultimately knowledge creation
- Share ideas on how technologies like big data, information sharing, mobility and analytical systems can turn data into knowledge to support decision making
- Discuss how telemedicine and mobile health is changing the way patience care is delivered Learn how anytime/anywhere access to data, advanced communication systems and information sharing initiatives can be secured to protect patient information and privacy